Net surfing tips
Do you like being lead around by cunningly programed links on web pages, or do you rather
like the experience of being in control?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in control of you destination?, as opposed to being
led where someone else has chose to take you? Do you even know it is possible? Well apparently many
computer owners without realizing it; surf as if they were riding ocean waves to where
ever they take them, but the internet doesn't have to be that way.
Surfing the net may be a bit like this at times , but you can have a little more control over the waves.
The problem with surfing the net is the fact that web site owners and webmasters have set their minds
to more ways to get users to come to their page and then try to keep them there.
That would be fine if the way involved good content, but this isn't always the case, which is why
people who surf the net should become more net aware towards the many ways a site owner may attempt to prevent
you from leaving their web page or site. For example if I visit a web site that prevents me from using my back button,
then I give it a couple of quick clicks on the back arrow; and back up anyhow. I have ran across sites like these never
to return to that site again. I have better things to do and I find tricks to keep me on a site extremely annoying.
Another thing that gets a site banned from my surfing path is were a site carries info on another site but when a link
labeled to take you to a different site is clicked, I am taken to yet another page of repetitive and worthless content within the site I'm
already, on instead of sending me on my way to check out the site they carried the info on.
They often do this by labeling the links with the other site name and or address; and yet the actual URL in the page code has a local
address instead.
That's one more reason why you should consider using the status bar to keep in check where a link is taking you next
before you click that link.
You can turn that on in Firefox by checking status bar on the view menu.
These are things you can easily spot and work around for yourself, and if more people show a refusal to be led and
bounced around, the sooner those site owners are going to catch on and realize that this is a bad idea and set
their minds to creating better content filled pages to hold your interest and stop using methods that only serve to
annoy and hold you hostage.
I should mention that better security comes into play by steering clear of site's that use such tricks as mentioned above,
Because my research has shown that sites using such tactics are 80 present or more likely to also have hidden scripts that
do similar things and furthermore; most often designed to fool search engine crawlers.
It's not at all hard to yank a visualization of such a script right off a web server; if you know how to read between the
lines ; giving you insight based on the action a script presents along with a little knowledge of code. Sites like these
were and yet can be responsible for such things as temporary redirects that cause a search engines to give credit for the
hard work of one over to another, but the good news is ;that once corrected by counter measure leaves such a site
spieling downward within search engine results never to return ; which of coarse is fittingly suitable for those willing to deliberately
attempt to borrow and still traffic and rank.
(Not a wise idea for those black hats seeking to ride on another person's hard work; especially since at least one major search engine
has long since been on to this type covert action.)
If you would like to know more about security and other area's of web related stuff then feel free to poke around this
site, one of the goals here is help curb your Enthusiasm by providing information for a more pleasant surfing experience.
May you reach your morally motivated goals.